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Schisms and Sects

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The provoking nature of the graduation banquet of the first class of the Hebrew Union College, in 1881, as well as the radicalism of Reform's first ideological statement, the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885, led to a major schism among American Reform leaders, ultimately resulting in the creation of the Conservative movement by the more traditional Reform rabbis.